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From: andrick@sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de (Dr. Uwe Koch [Biologie])
Subject: Re: probs with uucp and sendmail
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pc123@cus.cam.ac.uk (Pete Chown) writes:
: 
: The solution is to avoid hybrid addresses, but making sendmail change
: its behaviour in such a fundamental way is likely to be a bit of
: nightmare.

For UUCP purposes, it's often useful to pass all Internet style
domain addresses unmodified to a gateway via UUCP, so that you
can mail to `a@b.c' and the mail is uucp'd to a `smart' host that can
resolve the address more easily (or sends it to a smarter
host). This is not too difficult to achieve 
if, beginning with a TCP/IP configuration file, you replace the 
TCP mailer by a UUCP mailer sending everything to the gateway. 
I have made such changes in my sendmail.cf and it seems to work.
Perhaps, this is a little like a dirty trick, but it spares you
rewriting the whole sendmail.cf. 

--
Ulf R. Andrick
andrick@rhrk.uni-kl.de                       privat (UUCP):
andrick@unix-ag.uni-kl.de                    ura@strix.cluster.sub.org